AIBU to be horrified by this?! (Lighthearted)

[MadScientist10]

My British husband and MIL insist that adding sugar to cereals (rice crispies/shredders/corn flakes) is a thing that everyone does. I have never heard of this before and although I’ve lived in several different places no one I know has ever done this!! AIBU to think if you’d like a sweet version of corn flakes you’d just go ahead and buy Frosties????

I used to eat cereal every day as a kid.

I always added sugar to Shreddies and Rice Krispies, but not cereal that was already sugary like Frosties or Sugar Puffs (clue in the names, people!!)

I would use the fat of the full fat milk to coat the cereal and then pour the sugar on top til it both soaked in and made a crystalline topping. Heaven. My mother added extra sugar to every bottle I ever had, we ate sweets every car journey and tea had two spoonfuls per tiny cup. If my kids get a dusting it's only on porridge and they think they are lucky!

I can't eat cereal with extra sugar. I can't eat the sweet versions of cereal sold either. I don't buy them, partly think it is good for the DCs but also makes me gag slightly when cleaning a syrupy mess from bowls. I think I have a sweet tooth, for example I love chocolate, however they are just too sweet and squishy and make me feel a bit sick.

I can eat toast and jam! (which really is sugar, wheat, butter/dairy) so same ingredients but just different forms!

no, i hate sugar on cereal or in tea. not a healthy eater at all to be honest, but just not that keen on sugar on or in things.
people are amazed i can eat strawberries without it too - they just taste better.

Of course not everyone does it!

It's like sugar in tea/coffee.

Some do, some don't-according to taste.

It's very common/popular, yes. It's a good way to compromise between people who like sweetened cereal and people who like VERY sweetened cereal without having to have eleventy million boxes in the kitchen.

"Raw" cereal is about the best snack in the world.

So you're both right, in different ways.

I used to as a kid but I don't really even eat cereal much now, just the occasional weetabix which I top with fruit instead as trying

*to stick to natural sugars

We did that growing up too. We don’t really eat cereal, but if we dud I’d probably still put in on my cornflakes & weetabix (but not on others), wouldn’t put it on small people’s though, what they haven’t had they don’t miss.

i used to add sugar to cereals when growing up (rice krispies, cornflakes, weetabix) but with my kids i put honey and fruit on. The sugary cereals like frosted shreddies or frosties for me are TOO sweet. its too much and the coating on them makes them all hard.

I don't do this because I don't like it. But I'm aware some others do!

We had French au pairs for years and they were right ones for sugar in everything imaginable - cereal, yoghurt, strawberries- not just a British thing.

Nope. I am with you on this OP. Those cereals are already super sweets. I do not add sugar to them or to muesli.

I don't now (don't really eat cereal) but we all did as kids.

The best bit was drinking the sugary milk from the bowel afterwards...

Hm....

Bowl not bowel.

I remember adding sugar when we were kids to this plainer type of cereal. However now we are more knowledgable on sugars and salt and all that I wouldn't ever introduce that to my DS. To be fair there is enough sugar in the cereal as it is. Weetabix at a push I could see as its super bland.

This is completely normal! In the U.K. at least!

I grew up in a family of sugar sprinklers! I don't like cereal either way! I don't put sugar on my kids cereal :) they know no different!

I agree with a few PPs that it may be a 70s (maybe also early 80s) thing. This was clearly my MILs era as so many things she does were fashionable then (vienetta for dessert to make it special anyone? tinned peas?).

She adds sugar to lots of things (cereal, fruit, drinks etc). If the DC want an apple she offers to cut it and sprinkle with sugar first! She also sometimes adds chocolate drops to cereal. I'm sure she thinks we're loopy for not doing the same.

It's very difficult to put sugar on rice crispies, as it all falls off.

But no, completely normal in the UK to add sugar to cereal. It's not quite the same as having pre-sugared cereal.

I don't do it anymore, but did as a kid.

I still add sugar to Weetabix, (for myself, not dc). My mum used to let us have sugar on other cereals, like cornflakes and rice crispies too though. Mind you, we were even allowed Lucky Charms and Coco Pops. Barbaric !

No sugar ever... on any cereal....

TheDialyMail totally barbaric

Naked fruit?! Haha. My in laws and parents say the same about strawberries. Used to have sugar on strawberries but haven’t bothered in years, figure I actually like them without - who knew?!

@op

I’m amazed any of us made it to adulthood. We used to have a fizzy drinks delivery man, like a milkman for fizzy drinks . And the Lucozade! So much Lucozade.

@op showing you age, we used to have the Corona man, in the village where I lived, the grocers boy delivered stuff on a bicyle with a big basket on the front, fish n chip van came fround on a Friday. Me bit of sugar on cereals, about half teaspoon sprinkled on, sugar on strawberries NO, if they are ripe and in season, they are sweet.

I was bought up with sugar on cereal, unless it was already sugary. My mother always had 1 and a bit spoons of sugar in tea, my father didn't take any, neither did I.

Lucozade was only for when I was ill but the Corona was delivered by the milkman, and I was also allowed to make it into drinks with ice cream.

Porridge oats were always sweetened and creamy although we didn't have cream so must have been the top of the milk, always full cream milk.